Supreme Court Sittings.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 21 December 1887, Page 2

Supreme Court Sittings.

Ter Press Association. iNVEncAitoiLL, Dee 20. At the Supreme Court, Michael Littleton, for indecent assault, was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labor; Colin M'LaugMan, for larceny, to two years j and John Scott, horse-stealing, to four years. John James Meiklo, for sheepstealing, was brought up for sentence. Ho made a long statement, alleging that he and his son were innocent. Ilia Honor regretted that he could not give any credence to the accused’s statement. He had been tlio head centre of a ring of plunderers in tho district, and relied for immunity from consequences on tlio hard swearing he was able to procure. He had trained his son to perjury, and his servants to plunder, and in His Honor’s opinion there was no honest farmer within ten miles of Meiklo’s neighbourhood hut would sleep sounder because of his conviction. Tho sentence to bo passed would relieve them of tho fear of his depredations for some years to come, and would cnablo his sou to reform. Ho was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. Meiklo has a large family of young children, and his wife is sufiering from heart disease. In the case of Arthur Meiklo, son of tho last prisoner, also charged with sheep-stealing, a nolle proxequi, was entered, tho Crown Prosecutor staling that he regarded tho son as a tool of his father.